Mubi is nearing a deal for the rights to Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love,” inside the U.S. and numerous totally different territories, in a deal amounting to over $20 million. The movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, world premiered at Cannes on Saturday night time to a six-minute standing ovation.
The acquisition marks the first predominant sale of this 12 months’s Cannes. “Die My Love” is based on author Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 novel of the an identical establish, which amenities on a model new mother who enters psychosis after rising postpartum despair. Ramsay’s adaptation of “Die, My Love” is about in rural America and revolves spherical Lawrence’s character, a woman who has merely had a baby and is engulfed by love and madness, to which her husband (Pattinson) appears oblivious. It marks Ramsay’s comeback to the Croisette after presenting the 2017 thriller “You Had been In no way Really Proper right here,” which starred Joaquin Phoenix and obtained best screenplay.
On the film’s press conference on Sunday, Lawrence mirrored on her private experience of motherhood and postpartum. “I had merely had my firstborn, and there’s not going one thing like postpartum,” she said. “It’s terribly isolating … Extreme nervousness and extreme despair is isolating, regardless of the place you is likely to be. You’re feeling like an alien.”
“Die My Love” is produced by Wonderful Cadaver, Black Label Media and Sikelia Productions. The producers embrace Justine Ciarrocchi, Jennifer Lawrence, Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill.
Mubi is at Cannes with 4 motion pictures in rivals, along with Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Akinola Davies’ “My Father’s Shadow” and “The Historic previous of Sound,” a love story that’s certainly one of many highest-profile motion pictures on the pageant due to the red-hot pairing of Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. One different of Mubi’s Cannes premieres is Kelly Reichardt’s heist thriller “The Mastermind,” which moreover stars O’Connor, the first manufacturing it has developed and completely financed.
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